Omnia Amethyste

Update: Two months later, this is one of my top 10. It took a while to grow on me and is great for layering or when you just want to smell fresh and clean. I can smell the more complicated notes the further away I am from my period. When I’m on my cycle week, straight up baby powder. Hormones are interesting! Original Review: This one is a head-scratcher for me. I LOVE violet perfumes but I don't detect ANY in here. Perhaps its the difference between Iris and Violet that smells so powdery but, not in the way I truly like. To my husband and I it smells straight up like Johnson & Johnson baby powder. All I smell is powder and rose. Barely any grapefruit at the beginning, it is a faint wisp that quickly fades away. No green for us. My husband thinks it should be sprayed on towels and linens. I love Cedar Violet by Aerin and Balenciaga Paris or even straight up Choward's Violet Candies (Bourbon French Parfums makes an single note Violet that smells just like it!) But this, just smells like baby powder to us. Brand new box but the batch code says 3 years old when I check the internet so, maybe that has something to do with it. Got a full bottle new in plastic blind buy for cost. I'll be keeping it for the humid summers here when I'm feeling gross and maybe my second spritz of perfume mid work day as Coco Mademoiselle Intense can be too much to spray again (even though I work outdoors on the beach where it's often windy and breezy). Won't buy again but it was a steal and I think I can find a use for it. Powder and soft roses is all I get on my oily Mediterranean skin. (insert shrug emoji here) Gave it an OK on the smiley reviews. Would recommend for any time of day if you like this and any season except fall. Silage seems to be two hours on me. Projection is pretty big at first but then quickly dies down.

Though it's not my usual style of fragrance, I actually quite like Omnia Amethyste by Bvlgari. It is very powdery, sweet, feminine, floral and spring-like. I love the lavender colored bottle too. It's beautiful. I can smell mostly the powdery floral smell of the iris and heliotrope in this, with a hint of citrusy and slightly dirty smelling grapefruit. I get a tiny hint of rose too, but both much I must admit. I smell an almost gourmand vanilla too, though it's not listed here. The feeling this perfume gives me is that of a fairy glen filled with purple fairies and heliotrope flowers covered in beautiful monarch butterflies. The butterflies are powdery themselves and are becoming even more powdery from the flowers. The fairies ride on these butterflies backs and collect honey from the flowers in their little pots. I had medium sillage from Omnia Amethyste and also moderate longevity. It lasted about 5 hours on my skin. I think that this fragrance would be perfect for either spring or summer during the day. This is why I'd give this lovely gem an 8/10!

This is one of my favourites from the Bvlgari Omnia line; it’s so feminine, gentle and elegant. Am I the only one who smells lily-of-the-valley here? Yes, it does feature iris and heliotrope, but I swear that my trusty old sniffer also detects a very prominent lily-of-the-valley. (But definitely not lilac.) I know that notes in the pyramid are just a close approximation of how a scent is supposed to develop, and that some volatile flowery aromas are recreated in the lab, which is why an overlap of certain notes can result in a new note emerging somewhere in-between. I guess that’s what happens here. Anyway, this is a safe choice for lovers of iris and lily-of-the-valley (and pretty much for everyone else!) The iris is rather fresh and not too powdery. The sillage is soft to moderate and longevity about 4 hours. It’s a nice everyday scent for spring and summer.

I first smelled Omnia Amethyste on a coworker, it struck me as a beautiful scent so I asked her what she was wearing. I purchased this fragrance as a young adult, one of my first designer fragrances. I get a crisp iris, softened with subdued rose and woods. The heliotrope is well balanced with the green and grapefruit notes that preserve a sense of freshness with Omnia Amethyste. It doesn’t fade into powdery oblivion in my skin. For an EDT I am impressed with the performance and longevity. The atomiser annoys me, I’m on my second bottle and both times it turns into a single stream of liquid, meaning I cannot spray clothes so they smell like the most divine clean laundry. I actually decanted into another atomiser at one point.. Omnia Amethyste is an elegant, unobtrusive and versatile fragrance.

As soon as I sniffed this on paper at the duty free, I felt like I was being hugged by a cashmere. It was warm and powderey, but not grandma like. I love iris in fragrances, and this is a softer more youthful take on Prada's Infusion d'Iris. I love the heliotrope, it provides this almond-like powder without the playdough dry down I usually get with an actual almond note (think Shaghaf Oud Tonka). Overall, this is just a very elegant and comforting fragrance. The florals and citrus (not a punchy citrus, but you definitely smell it complementing throughout), and the touch of woods are all balancing well. I'm happy I picked this up at duty free to fulfill that comforting almond fragrance I wanted in my collection.